The Digital Library Research Group at Cornell has Reference Linking as one of its projects. Typical projects within in the group take an object-oriented approach to handling digital information. To support reference linking, therefore, we designed a scheme whereby reference linking information is extracted from archives by surrogate objects and then presented to client applications or users by ...

API migration refers to adapting an application such that its dependence on a given API (the source API) is eliminated in favor of depending on an alternative API (the target API), where both APIs serve the same domain. One may attempt to automate API migration by code transformation or wrapping of some sort. API migration is relatively well understood for the special case where source and targ...

Web services and cloud computing have revolutionized the way software is developed, deployed, and consumed. As a consequence, there has been a proliferation of web services, which developers make accessible to users via web application programming interfaces (web APIs) and cloud-based deployment technologies. Because this model significantly simplifies and expedites deployment of web APIs, it a...

Software developers often need to port applications written for a source platform to a target platform. One of the key tasks here is to find matching API calls in the target platform for the given API calls in the source platform. This task involves exhaustive reading in target platform API (Application Programming Interface) documentation to identify API methods corresponding to the given API ...

Hypersonic is a Cloud-based tool that proposes a new approach to the deployment of model analysis facilities. It is implemented as a RESTful Web service API offering analysis features such as model clone detection. This approach allows the migration of resource intensive analysis algorithms from monolithic desktop modeling tools to a wide range of mobile and Web-based clients. As a technology d...

The abundance of middleware to access grids and clouds and their often complex APIs hinders ease of programming and portability. The Open Grid Forum (OGF) has therefore initiated the development and standardization of SAGA: a Simple API for Grid Applications. SAGA provides a simple yet powerful API with high-level constructs that abstract from the details of the underlying infrastructure. In th...

Library developers who have to evolve a library to accommodate changing requirements often face a dilemma: Either they implement a clean, efficient solution but risk breaking client code, or they maintain compatibility with client code, but pay with increased design complexity and thus higher maintenance costs over time. We address this dilemma by presenting a lightweight approach for evolving ...

Component-based software, particularly distributed componentbased software, makes heavy use of interfaces to de ne the interactions among components. Each of these interfaces is usally presented in the form of an API, as a speci cation of the capabilities of the relevant component. However, while the predominant API model captures the behavior of individual interface members, it neglects the in...

Malware stands for malicious software. It is software that is designed with a harmful intent. A malware detector is a system that attempts to identify malware using Application Programming Interface (API) call graph technique and/or other techniques. API call graph techniques follow two main steps, namely, transformation of malware samples into an API call graph using API call graph constructio...